Individual Case Analysis
Scenario:
A newspaper company in Southeast United States has experienced rapid growth.
However, in the past two years, competition has increased with two new newspapers in
your area and the expansion of another newspaper from a neighboring town into your
area.
The advertisement for customer service representatives states the following: “The
position qualifications are: knowledge of MS Word or WordPerfect; typing speed of 35
wpm; filing; experience in customer handling such as answering phones and referring
customer calls to supervisors; some selling of additional services and calls for
nonpayment of bills. Starting Salary: $8.50 an hour for a 30-hour workweek. CSRs
work 6-days per week in 5-hour shifts.
The newspaper has successfully recruited CSRs, turnover in the position has been high.
The following table gives the break-up.
Most Frequently Cited Reasons for CSR Turnover (For the past 3 years).
· Requirement to work on Saturday and Sunday from 7 AM to 1 PM
· 75% of calling customers are irate with CSRs on issues over which they have no
control
· CSRs must sit for long-hours with no physical movement and must talk to
customers for long periods of time
· Noisy and hectic work environment
· No proper training provided for handling billing complaints
· Cold calls for subscriptions result in 78% hang-ups.
· No additional remuneration for solicitation successes
· CSRs don’t like the cold calls
· CSRs don’t like calling people at dinner time
· Supervisors monitor a few sample calls and often contradict what CSRs say.
Questions:
1. Based on the information provided, determine if there is any adverse impact
Against Hispanics or African-Americans in the hiring of CSRs. Assuming an
Hispanic and an African-American applicant who were not hired for the job filed
a lawsuit against the newspaper, what advice would you give the newspaper?
2. Based on the data, determine which source of recruitment method is most
Effective? Least effective? Why?
3. If your objective is to reduce the employee turnover of CSRs, what specific
actions would you take to reduce the turnover? Explain.
4. Evaluate to what extent the recruitment ad correctly captures the job contents.
Re-write the ad to correctly explain the job contents.
preview of the answer..
There are no adverse effects in hiring a Hispanic or African-Americans as long as they are qualified for the job. If they filed the application forms for selection of the customer service representatives, they ought to have a similar chance like anyone else if they met the qualifications. People are judged by their character. The newspaper should give a stand on the basis of selection of the customer service representatives. If no violation took place of the rights of any citizen during the selection process, there is no need to worry. If the newspaper would have offered more training to the people selected to handle billing complaints of customers, it would have been more profitable to get a reliable workforce.
Based on the data given, a recruitment service which is more effective involves that which has the qualifications needed for the work. For a reliable workforce, one needs to identify certain …
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